Taxon name: Alternaviridae

from Alternaria alternata, the name of the fungal host of the earliest isolate, and RNA for ribonucleic acid, referring to the type of nucleic acid comprising the genome of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

 ICTV Report: Alternaviridae Created in Proposal: 2022.001F.Alternaviridae_newfam.zip   Reference: